Penultimate

It is not a common word. I seldom, if ever, use it in ordinary conversation.

Thanks AlpheccaStars for your help.

Have you heard the word anti-penultimate? it means last but two.

Someone told me this word but I cannot find it in dictionaries.

Thanks

ante - before

not

anti - against

I don't know anyone who uses that word except perhaps historians or other academics (or people who care about pronunciation, since the definition I found used it to define the third-to-last syllable of a word).

hrsaneiThanks AlpheccaStars for your help.Have you heard the word anti-penultimate? it means last but two.Someone told me this word but I cannot find it in dictionaries.Thanks

I think the word would be ante-penult

...Not to mention the preantepenultimate: my position in a field of four competitors.

I just gave away a computer that ran a preantepenultimate version of the Windows operating system.

Thank you very much for your responses.

I found another.

1. One before last: penultimate

2. Two before last: antepenultimate

3. Three before last: preantepenultimate

4. Four before last: preantenultimate (

#4 doesn't work for me, but that's from 1913 and a lot has changed since then.

Hi,

If I've understood properly, they must be correct but out-moded and old-fashioned.

Am I right?

Iman

They are correct, but not part of most people's working vocabulary.